Ag Policy Blog

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are set to publish an interim replacement of the waters of the United States rule.

A group of Democratic senators have introduced a bill to ban chlorpyrifos, following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision not to do so.

Although concerns were raised about his lack of scientific background, agriculture groups have thrown their support behind Sam Clovis to be the next USDA undersecretary of research, education and economics.

The Trump administration on Thursday updated its agenda of regulatory and deregulatory actions, taking credit for reducing regulations and providing signals of what actions may be taken in the next few months.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to advance a funding bill for USDA that would boost farm programs for both cotton and dairy producers.

President Donald Trump late Wednesday announced his intention to nominate Ted McKinney as Agriculture undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs and Samuel H. Clovis Jr. as Agriculture undersecretary for research, education and economics.

The cotton industry and contingent of 135 members of Congress are calling on the Trump administration to continue operating the $300 million Cotton Ginning Cost Share Program created by the Obama administration as a way to help cotton producers.

The White House released its objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. The report has a heavy focus on agriculture, as well as manufacturing.

When we lost Marcia Taylor back in February, we lost our chief advocate for writing about topics such as succession planning. Marcia wrote frequently about the topic. Lately I've been wondering about what Marcia might think about the Netflix comedy, "The Ranch."

President Donald Trump has nominated Stephen Censky, chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, to be deputy secretary of Agriculture.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway may have already protected billions of dollars for farmers and food aid based on his talks with the chairwoman of the House Budget Committee.

BASF and Monsanto both issued comments late Friday after Arkansas and Missouri each issued bans on dicamba-based herbicides.

After a few conversations with our production editor, checking out the Twitter scroll on dicamba and getting a few emails on the topic, it appears at least a few farmers in the Midwest aren't as clear on the insurance situation regarding dicamba drift as their mid-South...

Reaction to the Renewable Fuels Standard numbers on Wednesday largely were pleased EPA had given conventional biofuels the 15-billion-gallon mark the industry coveted for so long.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told reporters Wednesday he expects the tax reform bill to be on the floor in the House of Representatives in October and sent to President Donald Trump's desk by Christmas.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., signaled last week that the best conservation and forestry advocates can expect out of the next farm bill is protection of programs at current funding levels, while government officials and stakeholders touted the...

The Agriculture Department's Agricultural Marketing Service has posted 30 questions for which it is seeking comment before it establishes a national food disclosure standard for bioengineered food.

A coalition of 17 farm groups asked President Donald Trump in a letter Wednesday to appoint more officials at the Agriculture Department.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule that re-codifies the waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule back to pre-2015 language.

The House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday released its fiscal year 2018 Agriculture and related agencies bill in preparation for a markup on Wednesday.